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Broke (brōk), imp. & p. p. of .
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Broken (brōk'n), a. [From , v. t.] 1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.
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2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.
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3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
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4. Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
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The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot.
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The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.
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5. Subdued; humbled; contrite.
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17.
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6. Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
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7. Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. “Her broken love and life.” G. Eliot.
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8. Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
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9. Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
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10. Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.
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Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay.
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Coloq. Broken ground . (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Coloq. Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Coloq. Broken meat , fragments of meat or other food. -- Coloq. Broken number , a fraction. -- Coloq. Broken weather , unsettled weather.
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Broken-backed (�), a. 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
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2. (Naut.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten.
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Broken-bellied (�), a. Having a ruptured belly. [R.]
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Broken breast. Abscess of the mammary gland.
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Broken-hearted (�), a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
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She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.
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Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn.
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Brokenly, adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
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The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.
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Brokenness, n. 1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.
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2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
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Broken wind (�). (Far.) The heaves.
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Broken-winded, a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
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Broker (brōkẽr), n. [OE. brocour, from a word akin to broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, possess, digest, fr. AS. brūcan to use, enjoy; cf. Fries. broker, F. brocanteur. See , v. t.] 1. One who transacts business for another; an agent.
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2. (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.
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3. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
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4. A dealer in secondhand goods. [Eng.]
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5. A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] Shak.
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Coloq. Bill broker , one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. -- Coloq. Curbstone broker or Coloq. Street broker , an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.] -- Coloq. Exchange broker , one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money. -- Coloq. Insurance broker , one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. -- Coloq. Pawn broker . See . -- Coloq. Real estate broker , one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. -- Coloq. Ship broker , one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. -- Coloq. Stock broker . See .
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Brokerage (�), n. 1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke.
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2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
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broker-dealer n. a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal.
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Brokerly, a. Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Brokery (�), n. The business of a broker. [Obs.]
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And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting,
And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
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Broking (�), a. Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.]
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Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.
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Broma (brōmȧ), n. [NL., fr. Gr. brw^ma food, bibrwskein to eat.] 1. (Med.) Aliment; food. Dunglison.
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2. A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
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Bromal (brōm�l), n. [Bromine + aldehyde.] (Chem.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
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Bromalin (?), n. [From .] (Pharm.) A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy.
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Bromanil (?), n. [Bromine + aniline.] (Chem.) A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine.
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Bromate (�), n. (Chem.) A salt of bromic acid.
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Bromate (�), v. t. (Med.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
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Bromatologist (�), n. One versed in the science of foods.
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Bromatology (�), n. [Gr. �, �, food + -logy.] The science of aliments. Dunglison.
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Brome (�), n. [F.] (Chem.) See .
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Brome grass (�). [L. bromos a kind of oats, Gr. �.] (Bot.) A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
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Bromeliaceous (�), a. [Named after Olaf Bromel, a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
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Bromic (�), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.
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Bromide (�), n. 1. (Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
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2. A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [Slang]
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The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. Gelett Burgess.
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3. a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase “old bromide”.
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{ Bromide paper or Bromid paper}. (Photog.) A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
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Bromidic (#), a. 1. of or pertaining to bromide (definition 2).
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2. conventional or trite; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse -- of sayings, assertions, or discourses; as, bromidic sermons.
Syn. -- commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn.
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Bromidiom (?), n. [Bromide + idiom.] A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides{2}; a bromide{3}. [Slang]
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Brominate (�), v. t. See , v. t.
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Bromine (�), n. [Gr. � bad smell, stink. Cf. .] (Chem.) One of the halogen elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.
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Bromism (�), n. (Med.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
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Bromize (�), v. t. (Photog.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.
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Bromlife (�), n. [From Bromley Hill, near Alston, Cumberland, England.] (Min.) A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
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Bromoform (�), n. [Bromine + formyl.] (Chem.) A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects. Watts.
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Bromogelatin (?), a. [Bromine + gelatin.] (Photog.) Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.
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Bromoiodism (?), n. [Bromine + iodine + -ism.] (Med.) Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.
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Bromoiodized (?), a. (Photog.) Treated with bromides and iodides.
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Bromol (?), n. [Abbr. fr. tribromophenol.] (Pharm.) A crystalline substance (chemically, tribromophenol, C6H2Br3OH), used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
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Brompicrin (�), n. [G. brompikrin; brom bromine + pikrinsäure picric acid.] (Chem.) A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]
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Brompton's mixture, Brompton mixture, Brompton's cocktail, Brompton cocktail (�), n. [from Brompton Hospital, London.](Pharmacy) A mixture containing morphine and cocaine, and sometimes other narcotic substances, such as heroin, in an alcoholic solution, administered mostly to terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients, to relieve severe pain. Its use is not universally accepted as good medical practice.
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Bromuret (�), n. See . [Obs.]
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Bromyrite (�), n. [Bromine + Gr. � silver.] (Min.) Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.
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bronc n. an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
Syn. -- bronco, broncho.
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Bronchi (�), n. pl. (Anat.) See .
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Bronchia (�), n. pl. [L. , pl. Cf. .] (Anat.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.
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Bronchial (�), a. [Cf. F. bronchial. See .] (Anat.) Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
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Coloq. Bronchial arteries , branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications. -- Coloq. Bronchial cells , the air cells terminating the bronchia. -- Coloq. Bronchial glands , glands whose functions are unknown, seated along the bronchia. -- Coloq. Bronchial membrane , the mucous membrane lining the bronchia. -- Coloq. Bronchial tube , the bronchi, or the bronchia.
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Bronchic (�), a. (Anat.) Bronchial.
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bronchiolar (brŏṉkēōlär), adj. of or pertaining to a bronchiole.
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Bronchiole (�), n. (Anat.) A minute bronchial tube.
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bronchiolitis n. inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles.
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Bronchitic (�), a. Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
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Bronchitis (�), n. [Bronchus + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
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Broncho (�), n. [Sp. bronco rough, wild.] A native or a Mexican horse of small size. [Western U.S.]
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Bronchocele (�), n. [Gr. �; � windpipe + � tumor.] (Med.) See .
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Bronchophony (�), n. [Gr. � windpipe + � sound.] A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.
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Broncho-pneumonia (�), n. [Bronchus + pneumonia.] (Med.) Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
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Bronchotome (�), n. [Gr. � windpipe + � to cut.] (Surg.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.
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Bronchotomy (�), n. (Surg.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.
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Bronchus (�), n.; pl. Bronchi (�). [NL., fr. Gr. � windpipe. Cf. .] (Anat.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
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Bronco (�), n. Same as .
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Brond (�), n. [See .] A sword. [Obs.]
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Brontograph (?), n. [Gr. � thunder + -graph.] (Meteor.) (a) A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms. (b) An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.
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{ Brontolite (�), Brontolith (�), } n. [Gr. � + -lite, -lith.] An aërolite. [R.]
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Brontology (�), n. [Gr. � thunder + -logy.] A treatise upon thunder.
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Brontometer (?), n. [Gr. � thunder + -meter.] (Meteor.) An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.
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brontosaur (�), n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth thunder + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) a dinosaur of the genus Brontosaurus; an individual may also be called a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus.
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Brontosaurus (�), n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth thunder + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called Apatosaurus, and individuals of the genus are also called brontosaurs.
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Brontotherium (�), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � thunder + � beast.] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Brontozoum (�), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � thunder + � animal.] (Paleon.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.
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☞ The tracks made by these reptiles are found eighteen inches in length, and were formerly referred to gigantic birds; but the discovery of large bipedal three-toed dinosaurs has suggested that they were made by those reptiles.
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Bronze (�), n. [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br�n, G. braun. See , a.] 1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
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2. A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
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A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. Prior.
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3. A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
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4. Boldness; impudence; “brass.”
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Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. Pope.
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Coloq. Aluminium bronze . See under . -- Coloq. Bronze age , an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze. -- Coloq. Bronze powder , a metallic powder, used with size or in combination with painting, to give the appearance of bronze, gold, or other metal, to any surface. -- Coloq. Phosphor bronze and Coloq. Silicious bronze or Coloq. Silicium bronze are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.
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Bronze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bronzed (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Bronzing.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See , n.] 1. To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
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The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.
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2. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
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The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott.
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Coloq. Bronzed skin disease . (Pathol.) See .
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Bronze steel. A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be used for guns.
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Bronzewing (�), n. (Zoöl.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
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Bronzine (�), n. A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze. -- a. Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.
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Bronzing, n. 1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.
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2. A material for bronzing.
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Bronzist, n. One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.
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Bronzite (�), n. [Cf. F. bronzite.] (Min.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
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Bronzy (�), a. Like bronze.
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Brooch (brōch; 277), n. [See , n.] 1. An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
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Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson.
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2. (Paint.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
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Brooch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. (brōcht).] To adorn as with a brooch. [R.]
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Brood (br�d), n. [OE. brod, AS. brōd; akin to D. broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. brühe broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. , v. t.] 1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
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As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34.
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A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator.
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2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
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The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.
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3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.
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4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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Coloq. To sit on brood , to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.
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Brood, a. 1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
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2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
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Brood (brōch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooding.] 1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. Milton.
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2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden.
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Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne.
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When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.
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